A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal 1996-98A worthy successor to the beloved actor's earlier diary "My Name Escapes Me, " this new volume contains Sir Alec's journal from June 1996 to December 1998. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. |
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Page 36
... heard anyone whingeing about the ' superior accommodation ' of admirals or captains . Also during the war , after being commissioned , I sailed in the Queen Mary from the Clyde to New York ; on that trip eight of us were squeezed into a ...
... heard anyone whingeing about the ' superior accommodation ' of admirals or captains . Also during the war , after being commissioned , I sailed in the Queen Mary from the Clyde to New York ; on that trip eight of us were squeezed into a ...
Page 47
... heard throughout the land on VE Day . Goat bells in Greece , cow bells in Switzerland , the rasping sound from the tower of some remote continental church , and temple bells in the jungle of Sri Lanka have always delighted . The most ...
... heard throughout the land on VE Day . Goat bells in Greece , cow bells in Switzerland , the rasping sound from the tower of some remote continental church , and temple bells in the jungle of Sri Lanka have always delighted . The most ...
Page 67
... heard a squeak , though naturally it was only in our imagination . From then on I was in love with the idea of trying to exercise a touch of magic on an audience , of persuading people to see and hear what wasn't there . Beak Street was ...
... heard a squeak , though naturally it was only in our imagination . From then on I was in love with the idea of trying to exercise a touch of magic on an audience , of persuading people to see and hear what wasn't there . Beak Street was ...
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